My parents grew up like that, and until we were teens would have some comfort-TV on in the background from about 6-8 every day. Us kids had to beg to "turn of the TV and have a conversation like real people" during dinner. But for them, and I guess still lots of people, having the TV on is just normal.

I do plan to watch it all sometime, and I did get through about 2/3 sn 4.

Well, abstentions are only estimated; votes for pointless sub-parties are counted. At least they have a number!

Kinda. Debates aren't for questions, they're for making yourself look good.

Maybe it's because I don't have kids, but I found myself struggling at times to get invested in the school/kid parts.

I didn't realize it at the time, but I think one of the reasons I've never finished Season 4 of The Wire (I have the full DVD set) was I gradually lost interest over the season (well, the 2/3 or so I watched). No Stringer Bell and it just wasn't the same.

Considering its only use was to allow places like Wal-Mart cover to not sell "those kind" of albums, it needs to die. Who gives half a fuck about physical CD sales in 2016?

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I'm too old. We didn't have computing machines in our classrooms

It's like when The Tick and Arthur tried to infiltrate the Evil Eye Cafe and to prove they were evil (and thus fit in) he was told to eat a kitten (which was put in Tick's face). It was such a great "well, that plan just went to hell" moment.

I saw the movie that came out about the same time as the MST3K movie, and it bored the fuck out of me. It was like Malick directed a cartoon about cyberpunk robots. Just long take after long take, people staring meaningfully in the distance and monologues in place of dialog. Didn't get it at all, and at the time…

I assume Blair Underwood says "hey, do what you want; it's your life".

Time-travel in fiction is 99% hand-waving anyway; five lines of technobabble could easily fix any "But why didn't…"

Which brings a popularity limit with them. So, not disagreeing at all, but give us your low-grade stuff, and you're getting low-grade responses. Plus, there's still shitloads of money to be made in network TV, ratings or not, and does the world really needs another fucking Spider-man origin movie? Put him on TV with…

As long as they keep buying Bud Lite, new phones and candy bars, does it matter?

Sounds like comics books to me! At least the ones I read as a kid, with endlessly-recycled villains, simplistic plots, sexless "romance", kid-friendly world-building.

Maybe. Let's see them put an A-property on. An actual Superman show. Batman. Spider-man (what else is Spidey doing, anyway?). I can't see Iron Man or the Hulk working, budget-wise, but so far we're still getting B+ heroes, tops on the boob tube. Maybe an X-Men show with the actual A-listers?

Lots of people, and even people in the demo, keep on watching every week. Ain't broke, don't fix.

Eh, are they hurting you? If there was some good shit out there that superhero movies were keeping back, sure. But there really aren't that many on TV, and are they worse than more, tired doctor/lawyer/cop shows, or shows about ridiculously privileged urban white 20-somethings whining about how hard their life is?…

Could be, but she's not an established property (if she existed before the Captain America movie I wasn't aware of it) and female-led comic-book titles have always been a tough sell. Supergirl seems OK for now, Wonder Woman was at the height of jigglevision (and was never a big hit no matter how well-known to teenage…